I wouldn't be surprised if I saw "Sent from my iPhone 6" at the bottom of every article they post. Even though they are saying positive things about the phone they still have to bash Samsung in the very beginning.

This is why I take every review with a grain of salt. Lag when opening the recent apps menu? Yeah, not at all. That was one of the first things I noticed playing with it. It's clearly much faster than it was on prior Touchwiz versions and was fast compared to my Nexus 6.

Some people don't understand the difference between an animation and lag. Those people shouldn't be reviewing phones.

In the end, I found the Galaxy S6’s battery performance to be about on par with Apple’s iPhone 6 and the new HTC One M9. It actually may outlast either phone with moderate use, but it probably falls a bit short of both rival phones with heavy use thanks in part to that big, bright quad HD display.

The fingerprint reader issue isn't so much with the functionality as much as it is that the fingerprint no longer recognized and the pin code didn't work either. I've heard the same complaints with the S5 fingerprint reader, so there may be some persistent software glitch.

This is why I take every review with a grain of salt. Lag when opening the recent apps menu? Yeah, not at all. That was one of the first things I noticed playing with it. It's clearly much faster than it was on prior Touchwiz versions and was fast compared to my Nexus 6.

Some people don't understand the difference between an animation and lag. Those people shouldn't be reviewing phones.

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Recent apps faster than on a nexus 6? I found that impossible to believe. Maybe you meant to put "was as"

In the end, I found the Galaxy S6’s battery performance to be about on par with Apple’s iPhone 6 and the new HTC One M9. It actually may outlast either phone with moderate use, but it probably falls a bit short of both rival phones with heavy use thanks in part to that big, bright quad HD display.

Considering that the new screen is 20% more battery efficient then the S5's 1080p screen (as tested by displaymate) I think we know more about the phone then the person who reviewed it.

The battery life is clearly low due to other reasons. The size of the battery is the number 1 culprit.

I'm not saying that BGR is the go-to for tech journalism, but I thought the review was favorable. Even if it wasn't I'd rather hear the truth about the product than a glowing review for a piece of crap. Example, I wouldn't read a review from sammobile lol.

The BGR review of the is actually quite glowing and well reasoned. No reason to assume any untoward bias.

The only serious misstep IMO is that he used the word 'lag' to refer to animations he thought were slow such as the app drawer opening which are clearly not lag in the sense that the phone is struggling to keep up, but just a design choice that won't please more impatient users. Using that term muddied the water and he should have known better. Other than that it was a good review, and very favorable indeed.